Articles by Liwen Ho

Liwen Y. Ho resides in California with her techie husband of more than a dozen years and their inquisitive son and fun-loving daughter. She has a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Western Seminary and loves makeovers of all kinds, especially those of the heart and mind. She enjoys family beach days, white chocolate macadamia nut ice cream and the beauty of the written word. Learn about her life as a recovering perfectionist at her website or connect on Facebook.

What are two of the best things you can do for your marriage? 1) Know your spouse’s personality. My husband and I recently took an online personality test* and it was an eye-opening experience. This is not to say that I wasn’t aware of our personalities before, but to read about ourselves in print confirmed a…

One of my husband’s friends told him, “You married a good wife.” My reaction, which started out as shock, eventually ballooned to one of pride. I didn’t know what I did to earn such a compliment, but it sure felt good to hear it. I was more than happy to hear that someone would think…

If you do an internet search with the phrase “the art of,” you’ll come up with countless results. The top ones include: the art of war, the art of getting by, and the art of seduction. But what is the one result that doesn’t come up? Mind-reading. Despite what some books and movies may portray,…

There is an ‘80s song that you may have heard of called “Love is a Battlefield.” We usually don’t equate the idea of a romantic relationship with war, but given how popular that song was (and still is), there may be some truth to this analogy. When you put any two people in the same…

It was the perfect setting for a romantic dinner … a dimly-lit restaurant, heaping plates of pasta, soft music playing in the background … but my boyfriend had not been the one to ask me out. Sitting across from me at our table for two was one of my closest female friends, someone I had…